Specifically, there's a difference between "happiness materialism" and "success materialism," the researchers found.
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It's something somehow both tackier and sadder than materialism—it is materialism talked about in the same ways and with the same reverence that people have traditionally brought to great existential questions.
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CHRIS: It's a song about how hippiedom generates into materialism.
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Fanciful nostalgia, as well as crass materialism, drives the slaughter.
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They represent crass materialism, and our endless appetite for stuff.
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Use this energy to be honest about greed and materialism.
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So, it's oxymoronic, in terms of its materialism, but also kind of giving you some observations in terms of young brothers putting so much stake in that materialism, and getting so caught up in it.
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Clark is disgusted by the materialism and arrogance of his neighbors.
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She read philosophy blogs about materialism and the accumulation of objects.
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In her 21992 commencement speech, she denounced materialism and corporate greed.
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There's been soul-searching recently over materialism in houses of worship.
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Finding your Why — and eschewing materialism — is certainly an inspiring idea.
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Luthra's mother expresses concerns daily over how materialism might corrupt her son.
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Our society is driven by rampant materialism, and prepping is no exception.
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I wanted to kind of blend Eastern thought with WalMart and materialism.
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The underlying message: Do not conform to materialism; aim higher; do better.
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Sylvie never find their way out of materialism either, despite abandoning Paris
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Spiritual materialism isn't just about the purchase of crystals and expensive candles.
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He was in his element: he loves parties, materialism, and the sea.
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We knew that the materialism in that movie had to be real.
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Dad was an admirer of the anti-materialism exemplified by the Beat poets.
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His materialism touches the edge of pathos in its unflinching acceptance of transience.
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He wrote about rednecks and racism, absentee fathers and the ills of materialism.
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Meritocracy, materialism and smartphones would still induce mental breakdowns among bright young climbers.
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I'm now completely over that materialism and, in many ways, I dislike it.
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The materialism that he had mocked in his political cartoons had grown exponentially.
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He loves the Brahmins for both their knowledge and their disdain for materialism.
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King spoke of the "fierce urgency of now" in opposing war, materialism and racism.
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It denounces both dogmatic Marxism and consumerist materialism as mindsets empty of spiritual content.
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No one is exempt from falling prey to bourgeois materialism and the "correct" taste.
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Many of them are searching for deeper meaning in a society rife with materialism.
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The eight-minute "Retribution" starts with her calmly declaiming about materialism despoiling Mother Earth.
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But there are signs that more Americans are taking a quiet stand against materialism.
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The thirst for newness, for advancement, becomes linked to materialism: new technology equals progress.
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She recently compiled 650 images in *Generation Wealth, *an insightful study of materialism and vanity.
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IS THERE any other time of year when good intentions and materialism converge so tightly?
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It's just the kind of empty materialism that P-Funk was originally born to sabotage.
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It stands in stark opposition to the materialism and individualism that otherwise define our culture.
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Lewis wrote about white Midwesterners who struggled against provincial thinking, corporate greed, materialism, and fascism.
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And yet her fascination with materialism has often placed her ahead of the cultural curve.
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The music was disconnected from life, and his materialism sounded passé even for hip-hop.
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Repelled by the materialism of his parents, he was then appalled to find in Mrs.
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In other words, it wasn't the materialism that was repelling me, it was the objects themselves.
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She is a breath of authentic fresh air on a show that is dripping with materialism.
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There is no need to be a Gnostic to see the materialism that dominates our priorities.
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YACOV ARNOPOLINLondon The Bolshevik revolution was seen by radicals as an endorsement of Marx's dialectical materialism.
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Diderot exists in memory to show that materialism can be miserable or it can be magical.
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Money planet Venus moves into luxury-loving Taurus this week, bringing on a bout of materialism.
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Neither iteration of "Dynasty" can be separated from its devotion to materialism and the one percent.
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Materialism is an important trait in individuals, and plausibly could be an important difference between groups.
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In the past couple of centuries, however, secularism has gone all-in on individualism and materialism.
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There's a comment on materialism in here somewhere, but the film barely bothers to make it.
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I feel we put our personalities first before any gimmick and before any, you know, materialism.
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I feel we put our personalities first before any gimmick and before any, you know, materialism.
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What does it mean to be satisfied and overly satisfied, and is there spiritualism in materialism?
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It was less good at providing people with meaning to their lives, beyond hedonism and materialism.
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Materialism is linked to social media use, too: One study of American and Arab youth found that materialism is higher as social media use increases ... That makes sense, since most social media messages also contain advertising, which is how the social media companies make a profit.
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I had never seen anyone talking about materialism in a positive light before, actually the very opposite.
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In our age of dazzling economic inequality and unrivalled materialism, McGregor's money evangelism always leaves me cold.
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"This is the want, buy, get generation," he says; sex is a part of China's new materialism.
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But if all of that materialism starts wearing you down, just go with some supreme pizza nachos.
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Many of us who listen to Bon Iver believe that there's more to life than just materialism.
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Virgo is the sign of analysis—take time today to examine your relationship with money and materialism.
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It makes it so that her critique of rap-inspired materialism feels like a confident, sneaky thing.
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There are so many '-isms' calling for their attention and for their loyalty — individualism, atheism, materialism, extremism.
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That piece also touches on your desire to protect your children from self-obsession and excessive materialism.
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Alongside his peers, he attempted to reinvigorate geometric abstraction according to the principles of Marxism's dialectical materialism.
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She professes to be an introvert, and she repeatedly laments New York's materialism, posturing and social churn.
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But to many, Rand's philosophy of "rational selfishness" seemed as harsh and limited as the Russians' materialism.
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My last project, Generation Wealth, chronicled 25 years of my looking at wealth and materialism in culture.
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Recent successes have included films glorifying materialism and complex interpersonal relationships, such as the Tiny Times series.
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"I've always hated capitalism and materialism," said Warren Stoddard, a 24-year-old from San Marcos, Tex.
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In this regard he stands on the opposite end of the spectrum from Frank Stella's aggressive materialism.
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Ms. McKenzie's book is filled Veblen's disquisitions about the anti-materialism of the man who inspired her name.
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Album opener "Nikes" is a lyrical treatise on the trappings of materialism, a frequent subject in Ocean's music.
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Its sympathetic reception shows dissatisfaction with the growing chasm between two pillars of modern living: materialism and efficiency.
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While Cutting through Spiritual Materialism gets into the nitty gritty, the nuts and bolts, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind.
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"Instagram simulator, generating your unique images, carefully placed materialism, advertising your corporate coffee purchase," the video says, mockingly.
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With Uranus here for the next seven years, it will help you unlearn patterns of greed and materialism.
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Wednesday's new moon in Pisces occurs in your house of personal resources, offering a refreshed perspective on materialism.
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In a country devoted to materialism, Schneeman's gesture strikes me as radical and rebellious without announcing that fact.
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But he reserved his most splenetic rants for the political shenanigans and growing materialism he found at home.
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One of her many books, "The Basic Concepts of Historical Materialism," published in 1969, had far-reaching impact.
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So here comes the materialism, buying the car I don't even like, and the Instagram boyfriend that everybody had.
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Materialism, especially for children, swamps, on this view, any reflection on the meaning of a Christian – or religious – life.
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Monteverde referenced a 2013 book by Dr. Amanda Scheiner McClain, Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality.
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" He then continued to speak on abortion, homosexuality, drugs, transgender rights and materialism, saying "immorality sweeps over our land.
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This shiny object clearly made him think of objecthood and his life's tethering to materialism in the modern world.
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The splashy project landed him on talk shows and magazine covers as the photogenic shorthand for Reagan-age materialism.
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She's right to highlight those perils, to denounce the tribalism and reductive scientific materialism that can motivate ancestry searches.
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But there's a reason I'm still at Level 2: I'm annoyed at the materialism in this Animal Crossing society.
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At the end of Menken's career, American newspaper articles emphasized her materialism and linked it to her sexually transgressive lifestyle.
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One fan accused the reality star of "embedding materialism in [True's] brain" after she shared pictures of the lavish gift.
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As spiritual materialism took hold in the west, our desire to capitalize and consume teachings that promised lasting happiness surged.
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And just as the Democrats were once the party of graft, so the whiff of shameless materialism sticks to Trump.
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Her costumes—high-tops, jerseys, graphic tees, Afrocentric accessories—captured a generation negotiating a path between materialism and political consciousness.
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Catholicism responded in kind: Papal encyclicals denounced liberalism as a pestilence and an evil, mired in selfishness, materialism, and unbelief.
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"I believe this issue is a perfect example of the cancer of materialism that has stricken our society," he writes.
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Many contemporary scientists, delighted by their advances in understanding how the brain functions, have embraced a modern version of materialism.
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Trump wasted no time reducing his speech to the prayer breakfast to boasts about the stock market and materialism pic.twitter.
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Materialism has turned the people of the town into hyenas, the character of Senegalese "trickster" folktales who cannot be trusted.
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It is wealth porn, celebrating the luxury-branded materialism of Asia's super-rich even as it sends them up, often hilariously.
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We confuse a genuine concern for materialism and consumption with the wish to have a decent spot to live and cherish.
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He told me that he regretted what he referred to as "the sickness," his all-encompassing term for materialism and greed.
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In her diagnosis of the country's problems, Clinton falls on the wrong side of a growing rupture between idealism and materialism.
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Had we reached a tipping point where we no longer wanted music that either glorified violence or reveled in shallow materialism?
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Sufism is a mystical form of Islam, a school of practice that emphasizes the inward search for God and shuns materialism.
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Imagine Gustave Courbet's materialism joined to Max Beckmann's aggressive color, with a dash of Caspar David Friedrich's visionary panoramas thrown in.
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"Peterson's understanding of Marxism and postmodernism is very vulgar," Harrison Fluss, an editor at the Marxist journal Historical Materialism, tells me.
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The ideological superstructure has changed: Nobody in Russia studies the mind-bending and once-compulsory pseudo-philosophy of dialectical materialism these days.
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" The modern church, he wrote, had become soft — all about self-esteem, materialism, and loving others by "affirming and celebrating their sins.
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"At first, the consumerism, materialism, and Reaganomics, that '80s theme of America on steroids, came through most strongly," he said to Deadline.
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Their shameless boorishness, materialism, and sexism are popular, and the blame for that lies more with us, the audience, than with them.
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Now, a new Instagram account is reigniting the debate about materialism in evangelical churches and putting many popular pastors on the defensive.
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But the images beamed across the internet were compelling—here was the new exotica, a hybrid of contemporary materialism and freaky Africana.
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In previous projects he's used match sticks, old cars, magazines and even teddy bears to explore the relationship between materialism and morality.
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The study participants answered questions about materialism, their own personal finance tactics such as budgeting and any pro-environmental habits they followed.
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King imagined America as a "beloved community" capable of defeating what he characterized as the triple threats of racism, militarism and materialism.
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This is the person who slips off the conformist materialism of commercial society and is both purified and enlarged by nature's grandeur.
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The lenders provide credit on easy terms, capitalizing on a materialism prevalent among students eager to get the latest iPhone or laptop.
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Yancey has long been celebrated as a symbol of bygone values—as a purist victim of hip-hop's drift toward crass materialism.
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Coarse materialism is coming, each wave of it pushing the Lamalerans up onto a rockier shore no matter how much they resist.
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Much of the novel that follows is composed of His thoughts on everything from materialism and television to genetics and global warming.
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Ultimately, this is where the true digitalization of products comes into view, a powerful notion that has the potential to redefine materialism altogether.
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Christmas commercials are probably about the last place you'd expect to see a morality tale about the ills of holiday materialism run amok.
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Even without these key details, Matthew remains a significant character in the Bible for the lesson his story teaches about acceptance and materialism.
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Even if you're an ascetic who eschews the materialism of holiday shopping, the Black Friday and Cyber Monday juggernaut is hard to avoid.
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It's impossible to counter either near-religious fervor in the market's liberatory potential or Trump's grotesque materialism without a competing, egalitarian economic vision.
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It became a brand of brands and swallowed its children, who were only too willing to take their materialism to the next level.
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"I loooove money" are among the first words we hear in "Generation Wealth," Lauren Greenfield's crammed compendium of capitalist excesses and toxic materialism.
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They seek to push back against the materialism and individualism that have saturated the secular left and right, all at an affordable price.
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Couldn't there just as easily be a science of whether Jews are genetically "tuned to" (Harris's phrase) different levels of materialism than gentiles?
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For 1999's "Windowlicker," Cunningham and James crafted a nasty parody of Puffy-era hip-hop materialism, complete with ten-minute running time.
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His disregard for the environment, his unilateralism, his materialism and his physical impoliteness raise the costs to European leaders of defending the transatlantic alliance.
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"We exist in a world where our main news source is a social media website: materialism is our dogma," says lead vocalist Jake Luppen.
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Yet if some find Ms Kondo's tidying prescriptions too extreme, many more still are finding the growth of materialism to be just as unhealthy.
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In the pilot, Chappelle proclaims his love for "the hip-hop music" and defends it against media scolds who indicted its materialism and misogyny.
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At his Christmas eve Mass on Saturday, Francis said the feast had been "taken hostage" by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows.
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Rabbi Sacks, much like the Vatican, believes that materialism and secularism in liberal democracies have prompted selfishness, promoted human arrogance and undermined family values.
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"I hope I will grow so far into dialectical materialism that I don't come out of it," the adolescent auspiciously muses in his diary.
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Mr. Tost is taking the mystery train, trying to find a story that gets down into the roots of American materialism, faith and violence.
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The culture thrives in the face of a rash of scams, robberies and violence that often provoke hard questions about whether materialism has run amok.
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Sociologists speculated that there was something unique about the empty materialism and stifling conformity of Japanese society that drove youngsters to look for an alternative.
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The project is wide-ranging, the artist argues, because materialism has become more crass, more common and more global over the course of her career.
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Fantasies of freedom and escape embedded in materialism, egomania, sadism and masochism, nihilism, the reverence of criminality and insanity and the ecstasy of the onanist.
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What I've learned is that if you can forgo materialism, there's the opportunity to meet real, honest people, willing to lend a hand when others.
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Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, he lived in a certain manner that not everyone is comfortable with, but his Cutting through Spiritual Materialism was a brilliant book.
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He raps about his relationship with God, about the grit of Chicago's South Side violence, and the bores of bling and materialism (his clique: Savemoney).
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Red: "When red is visible in your root chakra or your foundation, you are tuning into your materialism plane or basic human survival," she says.
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"There was a values shift after 2008 away from ostentatious materialism," said Marie-Cécile Cervellon, a professor of marketing at the French business school Edhec.
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For two decades, both parties were national parties, and national political debates tended to center on economic materialism, issues like tariffs, internal improvements, and banking.
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"It is a tale about greed, materialism and the corruptibility of money," said Chris Johnson, a veteran Vancouver criminal lawyer who represented the victim's family.
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Such hocus-pocus did not prevent the likes of Kandinsky from appreciating the vigor of Theosophy's assault on materialism in the name of higher truth.
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Hyman's answer is that each of these artists is "resistant" to the legacy of 19th century academic naturalism and it's numbing external vision of materialism.
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Joining them means that you are a slave to materialism and to those who buy trophies and trinkets to fill the emptiness of their lives.
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If they realize the planet is being killed by this economic system or white supremacy, by racism, by materialism and profit-making—they can recognize that.
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Children are ever-changing beings, but when it comes to money and materialism, too many parents think that their older offspring are not malleable at all.
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While the Good American mogul was publicly thanking Simmons for the nice gifts, one fan accused Khloé of "embedding materialism in [True's] brain" with the car.
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The country's contradictions and divides—between community and individualism, spirituality and materialism—are exposed during the wanderings of Sinan (Aydın Doğu Demirkol), the sarcastic young man.
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In some communities, you're colliding with a culture and a worldview that is both central to the identity of people and deeply threatened by scientific materialism.
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When he saw how militarism, materialism, classism, and racism still had such a hold on the body politic, he began to organize a poor people's campaign.
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Those perspectives contain warring theologies—Satanic insight, Christian, Islamic, and Judaic mysticism, humanistic materialism—plural perspectives that dissolve into the romantic crucible of the American project.
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With only poor education, which left them unqualified for anything beyond manual labor, they were confronted with China's rapid social change, rising inequality, and burgeoning materialism.
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In short, the YCL and its members are no different from other people except that we believe in dialectical materialism as a solution to all problems.
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Through his collage and digital assemblages, Italian CGI artist Sathyan Rizzo deconstructs the emptiness that exists at the core of materialism and modern day success culture.
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The earth is a cyborg, elemental media vibrating through space, flowing the dust flow water spaces, moving information to grow vibrant materialism and single matter energies.
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A crucial moment for the Mercury retrograde also arrives as the sun meets Mercury on July 21—an important realization about money, materialism, and worth arrives.
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"The truth will not run away from us" – this remark by Gottfried Keller denotes the exact place where historical materialism breaks through historicism's picture of history.
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During my talks with Kubitschek, I often found myself detecting what at first seemed to me a perplexing leftist bent, an aversion to American-style materialism.
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Thirdly, today's constantly-on media culture incessantly promotes materialism, the idea that personal possessions and status are the primary sources of happiness that people should pursue.
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That discrepancy — between an exquisite sensibility and a world of grubby, shallow materialism — may explain some of the temperamental quirks that Reynolds shares with his creator.
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Where else can one speak about Christmas other than in a world in which racism, sexism, classism, materialism and the devaluation of human life are commonplace?
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Musicians are not unique here: In the years since the Reagan administration, a reveling in what used to be called heartless materialism has become de rigueur.
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This period of decadence, in Glubb's opinion, is the result of "too long a period of wealth and power" and is defined by extreme materialism and frivolity.
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"She should of receive a cross or a bible so this child grows closer to God as opposed to embedding materialism in her brain," one commenter wrote.
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I think it's important to take the materialism out of these movements and teach the youth that it's not just about wearing lipstick or a kente cloth.
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In American culture, when we speak of wanting our children to have a better life than we had, it is usually understood through a lens of materialism.
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The rock stars, she said, were driven by materialism — satisfied as long as they got a large bonus from a record company and could flirt with women.
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The materialism/dualism debate was carried on by philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, championing the former view, and René Descartes, who embraced a form of the latter one.
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Over the following decades, more communities, including the Amana Colonies in Iowa and the Oneida Colony in upstate New York, served as sanctuaries from materialism and modernity.
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I mean, I think many of us, many people are, and then we grow up and the tempo increases and the seductions of materialism are like, rampant.
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In two-dozen interviews, Yue and other young activists in southern China spoke about the self-interest and materialism they saw among students in China's elite universities.
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In 1989, Nicholas Wade reviewed Bill McKibben's "The End of Nature," which argued that society's unchecked materialism and hunger for natural resources would lead to humanity's end.
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By the end of the eight-week process, the children who passed through the program saw their materialism scores decrease and also saw marked increases in self esteem.
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The expansive display of nearly identical fiberglass piglets are led by two humans riding a larger, fat-bellied pig, together questioning the rise of materialism within Chinese culture.
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The song tackles themes of love and materialism while also paying tribute to Pimp C, A$AP Yams, and Trayvon Martin ("That n*gga looks just like me").
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When you're as easily seduced by the promises of spiritual materialism as I am, it's easy to mistake what the hand is pointing to for the hand itself.
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I come from a very different perspective, and I don't believe that anything in terms of personal gain or materialism is really helping the rest of the world.
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The holiday, which once marked the beginning of the holiday shopping season (more on that later), is associated with consumerism, materialism, and, occasionally, a lack of family values.
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While the proud mom went on to say she doesn't "believe that all we do is spend money on worthless materialism," it's not her responsibility to prove anything.
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For Marley, dealing with his estate probably signified a surrender to the forces of Babylon, the metaphorical site of oppression and Western materialism that Rastas hope to escape.
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The two men professed to have little interest in the baubles of materialism, and they joked that they would cash out of Tessr to become wandering Buddhist monks.
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If criticisms of conspicuous consumption were once rooted in anti-materialism or antipathy toward the rich, today they are more likely to carry undercurrents of sexism and racism.
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However, researchers believe focusing on "success materialism" — the idea that wealth signifies success — enhances people's "economic motivation," or their drive to work and improve their standard of living.
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"Toxic hypermasculinity derives its significance directly from the conceptual penis and applies itself to supporting neocapitalist materialism, which is a fundamental driver of climate change," the authors wrote.
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But rather the more rarefied philosophical concept called materialism, which contends that everything can be reduced to the physical, that there is no real entity called a soul.
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Spengler belonged to a loosely defined group of German thinkers called the Conservative Revolutionaries, who argued that Western decline was the inevitable result of materialism and soulless democracy.
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He is quick-witted but crass, his lavish spending habits recalling for some the gross materialism that defined the rise and collapse of last decade's Celtic Tiger economy.
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Big City Even before the political ascendancy of Donald J. Trump, who, among other distinctions remains an avatar of 1980s materialism, the '80s, it seemed, were under review.
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Imagine Gustave Courbet's materialism joined to Max Beckmann's aggressive color, with a dash of Caspar David Friedrich's visionary panoramas thrown in, and you have something like Immendorff's sensibility.
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It looks as if this wicked materialism is to be fought with the sharpest weapons and hence the very life beaten out of the innocent white Bauhaus box.
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But even if I'm unlikely to get addicted to shopping, could using clothing as a mood-lift send me tumbling into an ever-more expensive cycle of materialism?
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Eisenstein's later filmic technique mirrored the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism, emphasizing tensions between reality and perceptions of reality, and the conflict that brews when these impression clash.
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Along with a handful of colleagues, the pair found a group of 71 families in which the children scored high (that is, badly) on a series of materialism tests.
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Fyre Festival brought together so much of what many people find disgusting about social media influence — crass materialism, braggadocious vanity, empty aspirations — and packaged them into a single event.
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" Another Modernist touchstone, early Picasso, described the essence of Cubism as a "base kind of materialism" which Clark interprets as "the Cubists wish at all costs to be low.
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Instead he says what keeps pastors of these churches up at night are problems that religious leaders around the world would recognize: materialism and the lures of secular society.
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Parasite is a bizarre black comedy about social status, aspiration, materialism and the patriarchal family unit, and people who accept the idea of having (or leasing) a servant class.
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His taciturn taste for painting that churns celestial concreteness suggests ways of experiencing life outside of the normal garrulous explanations; ways closer to Speculative Realism's anti-anthropomorphic transcendental materialism.
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Of the progress in human rights and technology, and the new moral panics that emerged in the 20th century: divorce, drug culture, terrorism, binge drinking, easy credit, and materialism?
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Whatever form your good acts take, it's important to remember that the spirit of the season isn't in materialism, but in making the lives of others a bit brighter.
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Could it be that Simon and Benjamin are projecting their apparent Western materialism — looking at the world through a grievance-based prism — on those who may not share it?
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It is a compelling, and often moving, performance, and a work that asks you to think about technology, belief systems, social customs, rapacious materialism, the environment and theater itself.
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Lizeth V 3D from YC CLIP rejected the idea that things can make us happy: Most of us think that happiness is in materialism, buying clothes, shoes, accessories, etc.
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Mr. De Feo's work is described by some as a form of culture jamming, that is, an attempt to explore consumer assumptions about media and materialism through street art.
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I despise the charmless Amazon wish list, it's true, but my reluctance to create — on command — a catalog of child-appropriate gifts is more than just resistance to materialism.
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Mr. Dugin sees European Traditionalists as needing Russia, and Mr. Putin, to defend them from the onslaught of Western liberal democracy, individual liberty, and materialism — all Evolian bêtes noires.
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Steeped in the gaudy materialism of Central Florida, animated by Brooklynn Prince's gleeful spontaneity and anchored by Willem Dafoe's deep craft, the movie already has a feeling of permanence.
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Chase religious ideas out one door and they inevitably come in another — because the human mind naturally rebels against a worldview as incomplete, as manifestly threadbare, as pure materialism.
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Chase religious ideas out one door and they inevitably come in another — because the human mind naturally rebels against a worldview as incomplete, as manifestly threadbare, as pure materialism.
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I think the sort of struggle with contemporary culture and materialism is one that's been ongoing with me, because of course I actively participate in the creation of that.
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This is all according to a fascinating interview the American Psychological Association posted in 2014 with Knox College psychologist Tim Kasser, whose research focuses on materialism and well-being.
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Analysts have called this a retailpocalypse, the American malls and their empty corpses serving as shameful reminders of what happened when we thought formica-tiled materialism could buy us freedom.
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Bob Zahn: The opposite of the world I came from in New York City, with its fast lanes and skyscrapers, billionaire elite, haute couture, and most of all, its materialism.
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As the mothers go through this eight-week course, they'll talk about topics ranging from raising kids in a culture of materialism to how tell children their parents are separating.
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A tale of millennial materialism and emotional greed, the pristine production and brooding vocals referencing $100 haircuts, Coco Chanel sunglasses, and Zooey Deschanel, make it a standout track of 2016.
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After receiving a mini Bentley from family friend Kimora Lee Simmons last August, Kardashian was accused by one social media user of "embedding materialism in [True's] brain" with the gift.
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These acts of protest are based on the work of Chinese artist Han Bing, who started stringing vegetables along back in the early aughts to challenge social conventions and materialism.
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Twisted within these planetary binds, shackled to the recursive dynamics of a feedback culture, even our faith–however porous and combustible–is soaked in the materialism of paraffin and fiberoptics.
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Each is briefly envisioned as the maniac, and, if you have always wanted to watch somebody's head being sawed off by the master of dialectical materialism, now is your chance.
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Your hard work has been financing people who think they are better than your crass materialism, who think that you (but not they) are complicit in an evil system (capitalism).
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Related: The Secret Life of Pop Art | Monday Insta Illustrator The Spaghetti Moons And Disco Ball Boyfriends Of Collage Artist Eugenia Loli Surrealist Collages Probe Materialism, History, and Home Furnishings
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More than a few of the titles on offer—" The Marx-Engels Reader ," Theodor W. Adorno's " Minima Moralia ," works by Angela Davis—seem to protest against the materialism all around.
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In 2000, the colors and props were multiplied to excess, with the town's residents embracing a level of heightened materialism that seemed to be what the Grinch was railing against.
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But despite its history, the car became a symbol of '60s counterculture and a form of protest against materialism and the gas guzzlers churned out by the big American carmakers.
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Many Kenyans regarded Mr. Moi as puritanical because he did not drink alcohol or smoke, denounced hippies and miniskirts, led Kenya's Boy Scouts and recited aphorisms against materialism and acquisitiveness.
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Related: Surrealism Meets the Baroque Era in These Digital Collages Surrealist Collages Probe Materialism, History, and Home Furnishings The Spaghetti Moons And Disco Ball Boyfriends Of Collage Artist Eugenia Loli
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" Turbojugend celebrate beer rather than margaritas, but they too use the fandom to establish "an alternative basis for obtaining meaning, in contrast to the basis offered through market capitalism or materialism.
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In my mind, these synth-heavy, experimental songs were the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist, one about a yuppie losing his soul to expensive materialism in '80s Los Angeles.
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Lehmann shows that a specifically Protestant, vaguely gnostic materialism has always animated American life, saturating the lowly world of objects with the sanctity of higher, heavenly purpose, even unto our time.
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The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, addressed followers at the Gandantegchinlen monastery in Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital, and spoke about materialism at the beginning of a four-day visit.
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Such zero-sum thinking is fine for a class in dialectic materialism in Pyongyang, but not on Wall Street, or the Chamber of Commerce, or anywhere else within a free market.
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Father Livio Fanzaga, the director of the Catholic radio station Radio Maria, attributed the spread of the virus to Satan and called the epidemic "a warning from the heavens" against materialism.
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PERHAPS THE HASSLE of living with difficult art is, above all, an attempt to find absolution from the sins of the art market, and of materialism generally, by embracing the esoteric.
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My point is that Taylor is taking liberties with form and space, lending them an ambiguity that ran counter to the materialism and flatness pursued by much advanced painting at the time.
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After a couple of decades living in the United States, he's witnessed the country's gross materialism and ugly underbelly firsthand, but he's also started to wonder if it's really all that bad.
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I had been equipped through years of ex-gay ideological brainwashing to dismiss American gay male identity, with its vapid materialism, its promiscuity, and its idolization of youth, wealth, and sex appeal.
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After analyzing results from a survey of over 7,500 German adults for the study, researchers at the Binghamton University School of Management found that people's feelings about materialism tend to be nuanced.
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For the Woodstock generation, driving a Beetle or its larger cousin, the Volkswagen van, was a form of protest against materialism and the gas guzzlers churned out by the big American carmakers.
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Thus Hud, a minor character in Mr. McMurtry's novel, became the film's title character and dominant antihero, a symbol of the rapacious greed and materialism that the screenwriters saw spreading in America.
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The pope's speech included calls for greater education about other religions and peoples, a condemnation of "the seductions of materialism, hatred and prejudice" and the "fake news" that he suggested spread it.
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We all know Taurus dislikes change, so it's exciting to see what Uranus will shake up over the next seven years (expect changes to how you spend money, seek security, and approach materialism).
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I think that if all our kids see is a glorification of materialism and bling and casual sex and kids... then they are getting an unrealistic picture of what the world is like.
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One of his most notorious canvases, "The Presence of Man" (1988), a satire of holiday materialism that depicts the crucifixion of Santa Claus surrounded by Christmas presents, was denounced by the Catholic League.
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Tim Kasser spent decades studying materialism and the results are conclusive: an attachment to possessions (and to their pursuit) will not only fail to make us happy but can actually make us unhappy.
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CACG, which deplores economic inequality, characterizes modern America as a society where "greed, materialism, and excessive individualism" are ubiquitous and views conservative politics and free markets as the enemies of authentic social justice.
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The lesson of this admittedly potted history is that when the central political division shifts from economic materialism to disputes over fundamental values and questions of national identity, democracy threatens to become unstable.
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When he died at 95 in 2001, our obituary included an excerpt from one of his best-known poems, "To New York," that faults the city for materialism ("Hard cash buys artificial hearts").
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" Franco Moschino, who lampooned '80s-era materialism and later introduced eco-conscious collections and an awareness-raising show about AIDS (to which he succumbed in 1994), was designated the "designer of the times.
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On the surface, Hollywood is a land of loose morals, where materialism rules, sex and drugs are celebrated on screen (and off), and power players can have a distant relationship with the truth.
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If you're not mindful, you can get caught up in materialism, but your longing to leave a memorable impact on the world through your work reminds you to strive for more than material riches.
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It eventually led to the monstrosity of Marxism-Leninism, with its pretensions to infallibility ("scientific socialism"), its delight in obfuscation ("dialectical materialism") and its cult of personality (those giant statues of Marx and Lenin).
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"Abortion, sodomy, and materialism have taken the place of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," Moore said on Wednesday in rejecting his opponent Doug Jones's victory, an adequate summation of his personal beliefs.
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This is going to sound corny but I found that people were more about the Christmas spirit than they were about the materialism of the holidays — they invited me into their homes, their businesses.
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VICE Money recently spent some time with Sister Monica to get a feel for her everyday life and talk about careers, materialism, money, and meaning — as well as her guilty pleasure of fancy coffee.
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In 2008 he founded Early Rain, and his sermons were often extremely topical, touching on what he saw as rampant materialism in Chinese society and the political compromises made by the government-run church.
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With guests from Puerto Rico and Colombia over a sample of Pete Rodriguez's 1966 boogaloo "I Like It Like That," Cardi B flaunts Latin roots while making designer-label materialism sound like self-realization.
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This is a time of profound social change in Myanmar, and some women, in particular, are yearning for a moral force to counter what they see as a rising materialism among the nation's youth.
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Instead, it is an ideological goulash, drawing equally from Buddhism, apocryphal Christianity, historical materialism, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to produce a powerful meditation on the human drive to produce meaning in a universe devoid of any.
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The movie has several moments where Kitty and Josh's materialism has blinded them to their own callousness and selfishness, and there's an ongoing theme about forgotten Americans — the poor who are in need of help.
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They interpret the transformation of the European world as the fall of an ancient religious order and, depending who tells the tale, as the rise of a soulless individualist materialism, or something of the kind.
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Independent churches like Early Rain, with more than 500 members, have attracted large followings in recent years, especially among white-collar workers seeking an escape from rampant materialism at the center of modern Chinese life.
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Those like Lionel Trilling, Susan Sontag and the older Saul Bellow recoiled in fastidious repugnance from its vulgar materialism and anti-intellectualism, turning back to Europe — or rather, upward, to European high culture — for refuge.
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The track was critically acclaimed for being "a class-conscious critique of pop-culture materialism that's so irresistible it became a No. 1 pop single," as Jon Pareles at the New York Times put it.
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Because you're now in the realm of esoteric thinking where "Jewish" materialism and "close-minded" rationalism doesn't matter, you're more open to ideas about a thousand-year-old Reich and a racial "science" and so on.
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Conner is a cosmological artist intent on making connections and uncovering mysteries, while Koons is a slave to materialism and those who buy his shiny trophies and massive trinkets to fill the emptiness in their lives.
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Dr. Tawde is associated with a division of Sanatan Sanstha, an organization based in Goa that immerses its followers in a regimen of meditation and chanting, offering what it calls an escape from addiction and materialism.
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Materialism and profiteering had eaten away any nobility the N.F.L. game once possessed, leaving in its place a violent, vainglorious, $203-billion-a-year entertainment spectacle staged by helmeted mercenaries for the enrichment of grasping billionaires.
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At the tractable end of the spectrum, they placed a politics of pure economic materialism: They include conflicts over allocation of resources — disputes between producers and buyers, workers and employers, tenants and owners, and so on.
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It's one thing to buy a treat when you've been paid, another to spend hundreds of dollars each month on shit due to a combination of boredom, low self-esteem, and materialism, just because it's easy.
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These are ideal conditions for a museum designed and intended to self-destruct, a sort of post-apocalyptic installation art that aliens might've erected to exemplify the materialism of humankind on earth before we became extinct.
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In a survey last year by the Allensbach Institute, commissioned for a study by Rainer Zittelmann, a historian, the foremost qualities associated with the rich were selfishness (62%), materialism (56%), recklessness (50%), greed (49%) and arrogance (43%).
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In this respect, as also in her "she-dandyism" (to borrow a term from fellow poet Lisa Robertson), La Melia's work reveals connections to Dada and Surrealism, variously refracted through Pop Art, feminist materialism, and other influences.
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Not 100 percent sure what this means for us in a democratic sense but if you're naked, you are for sure not bound to materialism, proving that Perry is actually anti-capitalist and Bernie should have won?
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If Sander's work makes visible the workaday vivacities of academics, bohemians, housewives and children, Otto Dix's art tears away those surfaces to portray an unruly domain of endless combat and vain materialism, sadistic violence and drunken debauchery.
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Nothing if not period appropriate, at least in its early years, the show positioned Eddy and Patsy as avatars of a hilariously clueless, grasping materialism, while riffing on the likes of spiritualism, family life and pop culture.
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The director, Kleber Mendonça Filho (himself a former critic), turns her plight into a humane, sexy meditation on art, aging and life and also a biting critique of the corruption and materialism that threaten Brazil's cultural identity.
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Divorced from its context on Heidelberg, Guyton's work became more lighthearted, a kind of lampooning of grotesque materialism — of all the things we thoughtlessly discard — it was apparent how meticulously Guyton plans out the seemingly random gesture.
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As an artist of the sacred, whose use of humble materials amounts to a withering critique of America's glorification of materialism and the artists who delight in it, Conner rejected the literal and its codification by Frank Stella.
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Their perceived materialism goes hand in hand with that desire to stay on top of things — if we were in a fable, Caps would be the ant who spends all fall stockpiling food and nesting for the winter.
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"He represents the 1980s ethos of materialism and greed; he is vulgar," said a high-ranking Republican staffer who requested anonymity because he works for many elected officials and didn't want to be seen as speaking for them.
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We didn't feel desperate but, rather, unfettered: there was a sense that we'd broken the bonds of mindless materialism and hypocritical conformity and were now just naturally floundering around until the new shape of human freedom manifested itself.
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The director, Kleber Mendonça Filho (himself a former critic), turns her plight into a humane, sexy meditation on art, aging and life and also a biting critique of the corruption and materialism that threaten Brazil's cultural identity. (A.
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She found excesses of materialism and fatalism in human life, discussed the unusual compatibility of physics and religion, and approved of philosophical and metaphorical aspects of the Gaia hypothesis, which looks at the earth as a living system.
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But the way you view wealth and materialism may have a significant effect on how satisfied and happy you are with your life, according to a new study published in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.
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He reimagined America by placing racial justice at the core of our national values and conceptualizing a compassionate democracy capable of resisting the triple threat to humanity -- militarism, racism, materialism -- that he spent his final year railing against.
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The political conclusions reached by King during the liberal administration of Lyndon Johnson meant that the "racism, militarism and materialism" that lie at the core of the crisis in the United States was not simply a partisan issue.
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Vietnam raised larger issues about the future of American democracy, especially around the themes of militarism, racism, and materialism that Dr. King had decried before his death and that Bobby Kennedy wrestled with during his short presidential campaign.
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In response, Kardashian pointed out that her baby girl wasn't driving an actual luxury vehicle, before adding that while she doesn't "believe that all we do is spend money on worthless materialism," it's not her responsibility to prove anything.
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It was both rooted in ancient tradition of Hinduism and well-adapted to the psychological needs of an American generation that was horrified by the Vietnam war, disillusioned by materialism and looking for fresh ways of thinking and living.
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For a handful of young Cuban artists, these illicit creations are a means of touching on social issues in a coded way, ranging from fear of expressing oneself freely in public to growing materialism on the Communist-run island.
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Think about the empty materialism of the eighties, or the depressed listlessness of the nineties—we figured the rise of social media would, at worst, just create a new existential malaise that we could make billions of dollars from.
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These are Western Christians, especially, who regard both liberal and neoconservative styles of Christian politics as failed experiments, doomed because they sought reconciliation with a liberal project whose professed tolerance stacks the deck in favor of materialism and unbelief.
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Your book highlights what I think is the best thing about the Gen X worldview — that materialism isn't the point of things and that you can make a good life by surrounding yourself with people that you care about.
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Another brilliant piece of writing in that vein is "#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement" in The New Yorker, by Rachel Monroe, which profiles a group of lifestyle bloggers who earn a living by monetizing their rejection of materialism.
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What remains of it exists largely in precarity due to the nature of the work itself, which often featured loosely ascribed improvisation that he performed or directed himself, and the whims of Eastman who was categorically indifferent to materialism.
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Opening with a quotation from Leo Tolstoy's last and bleakest novel, "Resurrection," this wittily animated feature from the Chinese writer and director Liu Jian presents a generic, follow-the-money tale as a Darwinian commentary on ruthlessly modern materialism.
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If you're looking for the perfect marriage of haul video materialism and childlike excitement over a holiday celebrating (in its modern incarnation) essentially nothing but the color orange, morbid fantasy, and newly-crisp air, you can find it in r/Halloween.
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Though they both agree on Lolita's complicated, inherent materialism, Mai and Nguyen also take pains to examine the magnetic promise they fulfill by wearing Lolita; a pull that perhaps all young people feel, and of which Lolita is just one form.
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But there is a conservative, Hispanicist strain of anti-Americanism, too, expressed by Darío and others, which claims a superiority of culture and values for Latin America in the face of the bullying and vulgar materialism of the United States.
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The story — about a pilot stranded in the desert who meets a little prince who fell from an asteroid down to earth — will touch your heart with its meditations on themes like wonder, adulthood, home, happiness, loneliness, materialism, and attachment.
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Buddhism in America is simultaneously exotic and familiar—it has lots of Eastern trappings and ceremonies that set it off from the materialism of American life, but it also speaks to an especially American longing for a publicly productive spiritual practice.
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Mr. Ellis chuckled quietly a couple of times, rubbing his knuckles over his lips, as Bateman and his sidekicks sang a raucous opening number that telegraphed the story's central themes about the corrosive effects of unchecked narcissism, greed and materialism.
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If you haven't yet chosen the neighborhood or town where you're going to raise your family (or you're thinking about upgrading or downsizing or a job change is forcing a move), consider doing a materialism audit of the places you're considering.
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To the Talmud-era rabbis who established Hanukkah, an even greater enemy than the flesh-and-blood soldiers who had defiled the Temple was some Jews' adoption of Hellenistic ideals, a fundamental part of which was what we today call materialism.
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"We correlated the rise of materialism with the amount of the United States' overall GDP spent on advertising," says Tim Kasser, a psychologist at Knox College, who sits on the board of directors of the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood.
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We see members of the lowest classes of Korean society fight among themselves for the figurative scraps from the table of the wealthy Parks; we see the Parks' blithe materialism, the ways they enable their children and retreat from the world.
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Ownership of property and the gospel of prosperity are so deeply tied to our ideas of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" that few seem willing to renounce the materialism that lies at the core of our national identity.
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So a few years back, a couple of parents who happen to be two of the nation's leading experts on these topics got curious about whether an intervention that focused on money and materialism might turn children ages 10 to 17 around.
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The pope made his appeal in a major document known as an Apostolic Exhortation called "Gaudete et Exsultate" (Rejoice and be Glad), a 100-page booklet on how people can be holy in a modern world filled with secular distractions and materialism.
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Arriving in the thick of the Reagan '80s, ''Playhouse'' offered a funhouse-mirror vision of the Eisenhower-era United States that Reubens grew up in — its excess, its materialism, its hypocrisy, its racism, its hairstyles — with an added slathering of Los Angeles punk.
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"Damn look at those chops (Image: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)Writing today in the journal Science, McGann explains that the myth that humans are terrible smellers probably took hold in 19th century France, when the Catholic Church was trying to fight "materialism.
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According to the concept of dialectical materialism—"diamat," as its adherents often abbreviated it—the triumph of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin was not a contingent event but the necessary result of an age-old process of class conflict.
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" Hamilton, whose distrust of materialism has British upper-middle-class roots—describing Gunn's apartment, she remarked that it contained no hand-me-down furniture—said that Gunn had told Abush, "You know that the beach house is yours, the dog is yours.
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" "I could go on and on about how there is no phone that compares to the Note 7 right now but to push materialism aside, I have not yet been convinced that my Note 7 is a danger...I am fully aware it is recalled.
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As a parent, Cecily now perforce moves in a sphere of ruthless subjectivity that her sharp eye can't help recording: the excesses of New York parenting culture, the stark reappearance of gender roles, the inducting of infants into materialism, the replacement of play with technology.
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"When he [Grinch] realizes that Christmas isn't about materialism, it is about joy and kindness and generosity, he says love and kindness are the things we need most and the world needs a lot of love and kindness at the moment," Cumberbatch told CNN.
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When he returned to Bhutan in 1988, he was taken aback, first with the condition of the country's libraries, which he called "extremely rudimentary," and then with the way an "industrializing, Cold War" focus on materialism had started to threaten the country's Buddhist traditions.
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Ferguson himself is mostly indifferent to money — he's a child of the '60s, after all, scornful of bourgeois materialism in all its forms — and his identity remains consistent whether he's attending a public high school in New Jersey or a fancy prep school in Manhattan.
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Teva Alon, Bergen County Academies, Cresskill, N.J.: "The American Dream" by Edward Albee and "Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall" This year, we read "The American Dream," a satirical play by Edward Albee that explores the materialism and superficiality of American society.
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His story is a variant of the much-told tale of the American man (or Englishman or European man, seldom a woman) who revolts against the shallowness of Western materialism and goes to India to find his soul, to reinvent himself, to be spiritually reborn.
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Materialism is a big problem in the U.S. The idea of "keeping up with the Joneses" or the idea that one must have the newest of everything in order to be happy can be easily observed in the media and maybe even in your personal life.
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To this mixed-up foundation was added, in modern times, still more kinds of mixup, with the Saturn figure, by way of Holland's cult of St. Nicholas, turning into Santa Claus, a saintly figure of the virtuous side of capitalist materialism, sort of like Warren Buffett today.
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Many of them are skeptical of the system that they feel has left their parents high and dry, and they are rejecting conventional models of work, the trappings of materialism and consumerism, and the traditional notion of "home" to forge a new way of life. 2.
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In songs from his new album, "Azel" (Partisan), Bombino sang on Saturday about how materialism was displacing ancestral ways, about the merciless conditions of the desert and about lost love — thoughtful tidings delivered with brisk, sinewy guitar lines and arrangements that accelerated dramatically as they went.
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But everyday liberalism is sufficiently muddled between semi-Christian ideas and a utilitarian materialism that mostly the system is defended by euphemism and evasion, and by a failure to imagine oneself as all of us once were: tiny and dependent and hidden, and yet still essentially ourselves.
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Though she had historically never allowed options for her music in films, Scafaria managed to convince Lorde that "Royals" was perfect for one of the film's final scenes where the crime ring is arrested, flowing well with the theme of the song's criticism of greed and materialism.
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"Be vigilant so that your vision will not be darkened by the gloomy mist of worldliness; do not allow yourselves to be corrupted by trivial materialism or by the seductive illusion of underhanded agreements; do not place your faith in the 'chariots and horses' of today's pharaohs," he said.
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During his speech, the son of legendary evangelist Billy Graham lamented what he called the sins of the nation: abortion and same-sex marriage (which he called a great sin that has been flaunted and celebrated), and pride, materialism, racism and the Hollywood glorification of sex and violence.
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He wrote about philosophy, politics, and urbanism with the same intense yearning for literary elegance that he hoped to bring to progressive politics; his best-known work, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, combined the analytical rigor of dialectical materialism with the lyrical spryness of Leaves of Grass.
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King balanced a scathing indictment against war, racism, poverty, and materialism toward the end of his life with a defiant political optimism rooted in his faith that millions of Americans could mobilize a nonviolent army of the dispossessed, capable of fundamentally transforming the political and economic status quo.
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According to Walt, the dominant narrative after the conclusion of the Cold War was that history was on America's side, even, as Francis Fukuyama put it in a famous 1989 essay in The National Interest, that so-called history had ended and all that remained was economic materialism.
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His bigotry, his boasting, his lies, his pride, his scams of the vulnerable, his worship of materialism, his insults of the dead, his turning a blind eye to refugees, his bragging of adulterous behavior, his treatment of "the least" among us — all of this is antithetical to Christian philosophy.
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To hear Mr. Peters himself tell it, though, the book, "We Do Our Part," is a desperate plea to his country and party to resist the temptations of greed, materialism and elitism — vices he believes have corroded the civic culture and led to the Democrats' failure last year.
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Then, as the optimism of the '90s gave way to the shock and horror of 9/11, Americans asked, with palpable chagrin, whether the materialism and vulgarity of their TV shows and movies were contributing to the virulent anti-Americanism that had spread throughout much of the globe.
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" Throughout the book (the "farewell" in the title seems even more true at this time than when it was published in 1999), Clark links Modernism to the social by way of materialism: "a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.
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With a Massachusetts schooling, culminating, inevitably, at Harvard, Forbes was a typical product of the generation who believed that Gilded Age materialism could be redeemed by the "Western civilization" that the social critic and art professor Charles Eliot Norton eulogized in the art-history lectures that Forbes attended as an undergraduate.
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In this sprawling, chromatically saturated landscape of sculptures and assemblages, early-American furniture and cheap and cheerful finds from the corner store present competing definitions of "Americana," and fall somewhere on a continuum between the relentlessly upbeat materialism of Jeff Koons and the moodier, mass-cultural immersion of Mike Kelley.
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Although it's a daunting task to summarize the depth and breadth of Haraway's complex and abstract thoughts, to put it generally and briefly, she is a feminist whose beliefs are not rooted in out-and-out environmentalism, but rather in self-sufficiency, Marxist materialism, and in a relationship with technology.
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" Published in Britain last week, the book, whose title refers to the signature propaganda catchphrase of Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, was described by the publisher as a "biting satire of totalitarianism that reveals what happens to a nation when it is blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies.
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Her exhibition "Generation Wealth," on view at the International Center of Photography on the Bowery, is a bitter, reproving tour of her 25 years exploring American and global materialism, and it's accompanied by a glistening cinder block of a publication, filled with over 500 pages of diamonds, collagen and Birkin bags.
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The authorities moved quickly to crush the efforts of the young activists, detaining several dozen of them and scrubbing the internet of their calls for justice — but not before their example became a rallying cry for young people across the country unhappy with growing inequality, corruption and materialism in Chinese society.
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Like his protagonist, he relished being naughty but yearned to be rich; those desires were hardly irreconcilable in a city that simultaneously embraced the materialism of the Reagan era and rejected its moralism, where stretch limos deposited partygoers in unseemly neighborhoods and yuppies ran rampant while "Die Yuppie Scum" graffiti spread.
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Some social networks lend themselves to this more than others: Aside from (or perhaps, because of) its rampant porn content, Tumblr serves as an internet Wendy house, a place of sunrise skies and mirror selfies, gleeful materialism (it's little coincidence that sugar babies flourish there), cut with a fierce sense of social justice.
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Buying into "happiness materialism" — the belief that wealth is an indicator of a happy life — tends to be problematic because it takes "much time, energy and money away from other life domains that make an important and positive contribution to present life satisfaction," such as family, work and health, the study authors wrote.
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So while Trump's retreat to bland culture-war rhetoric is boring and predictable, the instant-replay debate he touched on is fascinating: a sentimental reverence for the art of sport, and the imperfection that allows, versus the materialism founded in the money being gambled that depends on the certainty of the results.
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If I had to distill Sunless Skies to its essence, I would say it is about the clashes that erupt when a more whimsical reimagining of Victorian Britain—with all its arrogance, materialism, ignorance, and pluck—encounters a world of magic that does not and can not conform to its rules and understanding.
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Amanda Scheiner McClain, an assistant professor of communications at Holy Family University and author of Keeping Up The Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality, puts it more gently: "Kanye remade her fashion style, revamping her look from youthful California party girl to sleek yet curvy high-fashion model, resplendent in couture," she tells Broadly.
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Instead of being a cut-and-dried exploration of his difficult adjustment to a new environment, "Don't Call Me Son," which scrutinizes the world through Pierre's eyes, is a scathing critique of upper-middle-class complacency and materialism and a worthy successor to Ms. Muylaert's 2015 film, "The Second Mother," which also explored class frictions.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Long interested in the intersection of media, technology, and image culture, Sara Cwynar, artist and author of Kitsch Encyclopedia: A Survey of Universal Knowledge, continues to probe our complicated relationship with image-saturated advertising and materialism in her latest film project and accompanying series of photographs, Rose Gold.
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Materialists are sad, terrible people: We know from research that materialism tends to be associated with treating others in more competitive, manipulative and selfish ways, as well as with being less empathetic ... [M]aterialism is associated with lower levels of well-being, less pro-social interpersonal behavior, more ecologically destructive behavior, and worse academic outcomes.
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Throughout the decades of underappreciation that followed his original success, the shy, slim Cincinnati native produced a polished and graphically appealing body of work that, nearly 19933 years after his death and 21993 or so after the first cold shoulder, is re-emerging as a joyful, innocent rejoinder to the cynical materialism of much of contemporary art.
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While Trump names a Cabinet of millionaires and billionaires, battles for tax cuts for the most wealthy, denies egregious conflicts of interest that are obvious to most observers, and glorifies in the extravagance of his alleged wealth, Pope Francis observed Christmas by warning of the dangers of materialism and praying for the well-being of the poor.
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Among many other subjects, Mr. Berger burrowed into the sexism underpinning the tradition of the nude; the place of high art in an image-saturated modern world; the relationship between art and advertising; and, of particular importance to him as a voice of the British New Left, the way traditional oil painting celebrated wealth and materialism.
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The film's free-floating framing helps the director present this world of unbridled materialism without imposing any particular perspective on the follies of the idle rich, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that — aside from a shot of competitors praying toward Mecca — we are given no insights into these men's lives beyond their love of falconry.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian, 1922–1975), one of 20th-century Europe's leading intellectuals, known for his prolific work as a poet, writer, and film director as well as for his criticisms of government corruption, materialism, consumerism, and sociopolitical repression, will be the focus of the Neuberger Museum of Art's two-part exhibition Pier Paolo Pasolini: Subversive Prophet, on view from February 12–May 313, 2020.
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"How Long," with lyrics about attachment, materialism and resentment — "My life's a joke, your life's a gas" — starts out with just Koenig's voice over a bass line and eases into fingersnapping pop-soul, but goes on to toy with bursts of guitar feedback, a distant piano, drums that switch between playing and programming, a pizzicato string arrangement and the comic, metallic boings of a flexatone.
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